:hourglass: Analysis of Chronological Patterns from Archaeological Count Data

kairos

Overview

A toolkit for absolute dating and analysis of chronological patterns.This package includes functions for chronological modeling and dating ofarchaeological assemblages from count data. It allows to compute timepoint estimates (e.g. Mean Ceramic Date) and density estimates of theoccupation and duration of an archaeological site.

Initial development is in progress.

Installation

You can install the released version of kairos fromCRAN with:

rinstall.packages("kairos")

And the development version from GitHub with:

``` r

install.packages("remotes")

remotes::install_github("tesselle/kairos")```

Usage

``` r

Load packages

library(kairos)library(folio) # Datasets```

kairos uses a set of S4 classes that represent different specialtypes of matrix. Please refer to the documentation of thearkhe package where theseclasses are defined.

It assumes that you keep your data tidy: each variable (type/taxa)must be saved in its own column and each observation (sample/case) mustbe saved in its own row.

Contributing

Please note that the kairos project is released with a ContributorCode of Conduct. By contributingto this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

To restore the repository download the bundle

wget https://archive.org/download/github.com-tesselle-kairos_-_2021-06-24_12-52-49/tesselle-kairos_-_2021-06-24_12-52-49.bundle

and run:

 git clone tesselle-kairos_-_2021-06-24_12-52-49.bundle 

Source: https://github.com/tesselle/kairos
Uploader: tesselle
Upload date: 2021-06-24

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